Landfall by Cecilia Aldarondo:

From the website - Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL is a cautionary tale for our times. Set against the backdrop of protests that toppled the US colony’s governor in 2019, the film offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resistance. While the devastation of María attracted a great deal of media coverage, the world has paid far less attention to the storm that preceded it: a 72-billion-dollar debt crisis crippling Puerto Rico well before the winds and waters hit. LANDFALL examines the kinship of these two storms—one environmental, the other economic—juxtaposing competing utopian visions of recovery. Featuring intimate encounters with Puerto Ricans as well as the newcomers flooding the island, LANDFALL reflects on a question of contemporary global relevance: when the world falls apart, who do we become?

Joining us will be Associate Producer, Lale Namerrow Pastor


LALE NAMERROW PASTOR

Collaborator, Associate Producer

Lale Namerrow Pastor is a person, woman and transfeminist. Born in Río Piedras, raised in Puerto Nuevo, of Dominican mother and absent father. They completed their undergraduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico in Photography and Art History. They continue their academic preparation in directing and film production in the city of New York, in the New York Film Academy. Currently, they reside in Puerto Rico, where they are well known as a musical curator in the subversive-queer scene, an archive researcher and an audio visual producer. Among many things, they are Caribbean, an activist, a videographer, an editor, a consultant, a comrade, maricona, pata, turba and quite possibly anything else that fits between quotation marks.